Liberal Gates of Hell - Airports and their CNNs

CNN's Eye of Sauron.

John writes in Powerline about his experience going through one airport and noticed all of the TVs turned on to CNN with it's volume cranked up blaring away incessantly for 24 hours. So many of them? In all airports I daresay? Take a look CNN's airport network website:

CNN Airport Network is available in 42 of the busiest U.S. airports and is seen in more than 1,880+ gates and other viewing areas.

Ye gods! 1880+ gates of hell!

Now, all that hasn't escaped my observation either whenever I go on business trips do I notice TVs on with CNN's one-sided coverage up and down the airport aisles. But as a person who is hard of hearing, I have the option of turning off my hearing aid and smile while I sit and wait until my plane is ready at the gate. Of course, then I be tempted to look up once in a while at the tv in my moment of boredom and see a flurry of moving mouths...mostly shouting, I suppose. I guess with some 30 million people with hearing loss in the United States they have at least that option and not to suffer such fate compared to hearing people.

But John said the airports have their TVs set on really loud so everybody can hear. Really? I suppose that's true since another guy from PBS talked about the very same thing - rude and loud TVs at the airport.

In one airport gate, I was basically held hostage to the TV, blaring news summaries at high volume, repeated over and over and over. Imagine being stuck for three hours and seeing the same thing repeated endlessly.

Check out that PBS link. Pretty interesting about the history of how CNN got started in airports and the author's phone conversation with one of the architect who got CNN into airports.

I can imagine the successes of having CNN blaring all across the United States in those airport terminals holding travelers hostages to one-sided news. Especially when planes get delayed for several hours due to bad weather. Now, isn't there a compensation package for frequent flyers for high-frequency hearing loss who are forced to listen to overly loud CNN's television shows? Ok, so, I'm trying to be funny here.

But then I noticed recently in my business travels that airports are turning on their closed captioning more and more often, even when you request it.

Dag gurn it! Although I can always look away, and watch people bump into each other or see them pick their noses.

Perhaps we can petition Foxnews for them to try and get in at the remaining other airports? If any is left.

By the way, avoid Detroit's Northwest hub.

Huge, perhaps 40-foot diagonal TV screens with closed captioning keep CNN in your view at all times - a blessing and a curse

A curse? Indeed. Especially with 40-foot TV screens all over the place. The CNN's Eye of Suaron is everywhere you go as you walk the crowded airport terminals. Whether you're hearing or deaf, you ain't safe no more from the Liberal chokeholds of one sided news where ever you travel the (un)friendly skies.